Dr. Royol Chitradon

Joseph Scaria

Aid & Development Asia Summit

The Objective

The 3rd annual Aid & Development Asia Summit will take place on 14-15 June 2017 at the Myanmar International Convention Centre (MICC2) in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital city of Myanmar.

Gathering over 250 senior representatives and advisors from regional governments, UN agencies, international and regional NGOs, development banks, donors, military, research institutes and the private sector, the Summit looks at how technological innovations and best practice can improve aid delivery and development strategy in Asia, with a particular focus on Myanmar.

Why Myanmar?

Following the success of previous summits on innovations and partnerships in humanitarian aid and development in South East Asia held at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok, the AIDF audience has stated interest in moving the event to Myanmar in 2017.

Myanmar is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia and is undergoing a profound transformation, emerging from more than 50 years of military rule, centralized control, and internal conflict. Multilateral and bilateral development agencies, UN and international NGOs are increasingly active in Myanmar, working in humanitarian response and longer-term development in a multitude of sectors, including the environment, health, education, livelihoods, advocacy, and civil society capacity building. McKinsey forecasts that the economy could more than quadruple to reach $200bn by 2030.

Testimonials

AIDF has done a great job of gathering the right stakeholders across the world under one roof and compiling a very compelling agenda on the disaster & relief management. I think, this will give all the participants a great opportunity to discuss sustainable development solutions. We are very excited to participate in the AIDF Asia Summit 2016 for the first time.

- Ben Mathew

Greenlight Planet

I think AIDF summit is very good summit and has brought together very different stakeholders across government, UN agencies, private sector & NGO’s into one platform to discuss the frontier developments in addressing disaster reduction and other sustainable development agendas. Going forward UN will come with sustainable development and what we are discussing in the meeting that AIDF has organised is how especially the Asia Pacific region and South East Asia can prepare for achieving sustainable development goals that the UN will be bringing in September.

- Dr. Shamika Sirimanne

UN ESCAP

The AIDF summit has been so far fantastic and it has been held in a superb environment. The UNCC is a superb location with all the facilities required. It is ideally located and assessable for all the UN staff and the associated NGO’s. As a company we have met loads of influential key people within the market sector that we work in, so in so many aspects it has been fantastic.